WOW. Geometric Kite Is a Lightweight Flying Sculpture

Want: Bas Princen.

Now that is a stunning office.

Spectacular, self-designed offices of Spanish architect firm Selgas Cano. The low-impact, almost sub-terranean building is situated amongst downtown Madrid’s trees and features a 2cm thick curved window running the entire length of the north-facing wall. The opposite south-facing wall is constructed from an 11cm thick, insulated, fiber-glass and polyester sandwich, providing the staff with shade from the direct sunlight and stopping the tunnel-like space from turning into an oven. A hinged opening attached to a weighted pulley system also allows for varying degrees of natural ventilation. All photographs by Iwan Baan.

www.selgascano.net

Found @HUH

Double Happiness by architect Didier Faustino

Casa da Música by Rem Koolhaas

and Stefan Sagmeister.

“There are some buildings that provide a sense of continuity, but this building consists of abrupt and autonomous elements that are connected by means of a fluid space. So, I see it as a kind of essay about autonomy and fluidity, separation and connection. For me, it’s important that the fixed elements are surrounded by a much more fluid experience.”
Rem Koolhaas in Público

Casa da Música is a major concert hall space in Porto, designed by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas with Office for Metropolitan Architecture and Arup-AFA, and was built as part of Porto’s project for European Culture Capital in 2001.

The homage to Portuguese tiles, azulejo, troughout the building is remarkably beautiful in contrast to the concrete.

More images here >

Logo-generator

The identity is based on the layout of the building and designed by Stefan Sagmeister. A logo-generator was developed to create variations of the logo based on the colour of the used image. See a part of Stefan’s TEDtalk about Casa da Música here >

Dutch identity over the top /

Seventy Zaandam houses, piled up  twelve stories high, form the facade of a hotel which is the eye catcher of the new heart of Zaandam town. 

‘Fusion architecture’ by WAM architects of the Inntel Hotel Zaandam, city center masterplan by Soeters Van Eldonk architects. The blue house on the left is a reference to a house in Zaandam Monet painted when he once visited the area.

(found at kurzschluss)

The weather project by Olafur Eliasson.

Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, UK, 2003

Living Architecture. A New way of experiencing architecture.

Living Architecture has asked a series of established and emerging world-class architects to build houses around the UK. The houses will be available to rent for holidays by the general public.

The inspiration for Living Architecture came from a desire for people to be able to experience what it is like to live, eat and sleep in a space designed by an outstanding architectural practice. Whilst there are examples of great modern buildings in Britain, they tend to be in places that one passes through (eg. airports, museums, offices), and the few modern houses that exist are almost all in private hands and cannot be visited.

Living Architecture will start to open its houses for holiday rentals in the spring of 2010. Please sign up for news updates below to be kept in touch and to make bookings.

I’d like to live in The Balancing Barn by MVRDV.